Acworth, GA

Wow what a drive today was!

Ashburn, GA  - Acworth, GA
3/Apr/24

Miles Traveled      198
Trip Total               439
Travel Time          4:15

Fl, Georgia

Today's trip is why we plan to keep our travel days around 4 hours.  What should have been a 3 hour trip turned into almost a 6 hour trip. 

To start with Interstate 75, north of Macon GA is in horrible condition.  I am surprised nothing came apart in the RV.   Between the road conditions and the wind blowing us around, you spend the entire time fighting the steering wheel.  If the road conditions were not bad enough once we reached Macon the traffic was even worse than the roads.  The further north we got the more traffic there was, by the time we got to Atlanta we spent as much time standing still as we did moving forward.

The one highlight of the trip was our first ever stop at Buc ee's.  I could not believe the number of gas pumps there, and there was enough room around the pumps that we had no problems pulling up to or leaving the them.   Pilot/Flying J use to be our favorite place to get fuel in the RV, if all Buc ee's are as good as this one that will quickly change.    Then going into the store was just crazy.  From food to clothing it seems like they have a little bit of everything.  The one thing they are lacking is RV parking, we ended up taking up about 10 parking spots.

After getting through Atlanta we arrived at Clark Creek South campground, a county campground on Altoona Lake.  The roads in the campground are narrow and winding, the sites are not very level but the view is spectacular.  Our site is directly on the lake and the site are very spread out.  I would recommend this campground to anyone in the area.

 

Tomorrow we head off to Dutton Al to meet up with several friends we met on our Great Loop trip.

And we're off!!!

 And We're Off!

Inverness Fl, - Ashburn, GA
2/Apr/24

Miles Traveled     241
Trip Total              241
Travel Time         4:20 

Florida, GA

Today was the big day, we pulled the power cord, lifted the jacks and headed out to start our adventure.   We planned to pull out of Mark & Karen's around 9AM, and  and we pulled it off. We had to do a little a jiggling to get both RV's out of the driveway, and the cars hooked up, but it went very smoothly.  

They live on a fairly busy street and there was no way to put both RV's on the street and hook up the cars. Fortunately there is a technical college across the street with a few large parking lots.  Mark and I drove the RV's there and Karen and Angel followed in the cars.  We quickly hooked our toads and headed out.    

Our first stop is Carrol's Sausage and Country Store 240 miles from Inverness.  

We try to keep our travel days around 250 to 300 miles or 4 to 5 hours of travel time. We also try to arrive at our destination by 3pm. While none of these are hard fast rules it makes our travel days much nicer.

The trip from Inverness to Carrol's was pretty straight forward and easy. Shortly after leaving we go on I75, and stayed on it till we reached Ashburn GA.  While it was a easy ride, drivers never cease to amaze me, some off the crazy thing drivers do, On ramps are the worst, cars will stay right along side us all the way until the end of the acceleration lane, then expect us to yield to them. 

What made todays trip fun, was all the people honking at us.  Before we left we took the just married sticker off the side of the RV and put them on the back of the car. Anything to make the ride more fun.  

We arrived at Carrol's (A Harvest Host site) around 2:30.  Harvest Host are small businesses that allow campers to spend the night, all they asked is that we spend a little money while were are there.  They are businesses like wineries, breweries, country stores and the like.  

Other than the store there is not much to do at this stop.  We did walk around Georgia Peanut RV Park right next door to Carrol's.  It is not much more the an overnight stop, really not much different than Carrol's other than they have water and electric.  We did not see the need to pay to stay there, when our site was free.  They do claim to have the world's largest peanut.  

It was a very relaxing evening and a good way to start our trip.